The NHS plan promises the creation of general practitioners with a specialist interest
(GPSIs) who will be able to provide an alternative referral resource for primary care. At …

The NHS Plan 2000 proposed the development of specialist GPs to take referrals from other
GPs in specialities including dermatology. The NHS Modernisation Agency Action on …

Four hundred and fifty‐six practitioners (GPs) in Avon were asked what they required from
their department of dermatology, and what improvements to the present service they could …

In a survey of patients referred to the dermatology outpatients department of a British
teaching hospital, 26% of referrals were considered unnecessary by a senior house officer …

Objective To assess the effectiveness, accessibility, and acceptability of a general
practitioner with special interest service for skin problems compared with a hospital …

Background General practitioners with special interests (GPSIs) are increasingly being used
to provide dermatology services in the UK Little is known about UK dermatology patient …

There were no other relevant changes in the population, local GPs, or the local health
community to produce this sudden change. Two-week cancer waits and targets for shorter …

General practitioners with a special interest are general practitioners with special
experience or training that enables them to take referrals which would normally be seen by …

NHS reforms and changes over the past decade have had a huge impact on the practice of
specialist medicine, and clearly will continue to do so well into the next millennium …

Some years ago I visited my general practitioner to ask why the beds of most of my
fingernails and toenails were thickening and whitening, raising the nails, which were …